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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. Mays 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 unwanted garbage Heads Back to . Buffalo . A a Barge Load of garbage thai has been barred by five states and two countries is heading Back toward new York although its owner said sunday that the refuse still had no firm destination. It s heading in a northerly course said Slat department of environmental conservation com missioner Henry a Williams who said his conversations with the owner of the tug and Barge led him to believe the Barge which left Islip ., on March 22, May be coming Back. While the Barge owner told him the Barge was pre pared to go where the winds of Fate direct it Williams added in his own mind he figures it s going Back to new York so he s headed in this  Bui the owners of the Baic and lug Harvey Gulf International Marine said they still had no Destina Tion for the Barge and its cargo of 3,000 tons of commercial refuse. We still have no port said Bob owing vice president of Harvey Gulf. The owner of the Gar Bage is still negotiating for other  the owner of the Load Lowell Harrelson of Bay Minutte /via., who contracted to haul it away from Islip said sunday the garbage still has no place to go. I Don t know any More than you people Harryl son told the associated press. He said he is Stilt talking with Landfill owners but has t closed a  Barge has been turned away by North Carolina Alabama Mississippi Louisiana and Texas As Well As Mexico and the Central american nation of Belize. Williams said one of his Agency s engineers would join Federal environmental Protection Agency officials monday in examining the Load which the coast guard said was moving slowly 20 mites South of key West a sunday morning after being towed around the Gulf of Mexico. He said he ordered the inspection and contacted Landfill owners across the country in. The event it does end up on our Doorstep hat we Aren t stuck without other alternatives. We have by no Means invited them  siamese twins 38, enrol As College students Compton Calif. A thirty eight year old siamese twins joined atthe head have left the seclusion of dim Days lighted by a television screen fora Dew Lite As College students. When Yvonne and Yvette Mccarther Mother Learned of their decision she cried for fear of the world her twin would face but three months after their enrolment at compion Community College they have Given their Mother a new worry. They re working themselves  said Willie Mccather. They Don t want to do anything but  Yvonne said in a recent interview that she loves College so much she can t be Lieve she waited so Long to sign up. Me either said Yvette who added i m going to summer school  me too said Yvonne. Life is a chorus of me too for the twins we Jse Mother once was told by doctors thai of babies should be institutionalized. The doctors said they would never be Able to walk and probably would be re larded. Joined Al the top of the head the walk leaning inward toward each other. Or. Frank Anderson one of several siamese twins Yvonne and Yvette Mccarthur. App Oil physicians who saw the children soon after they were bom said their Mother then 38, did not want surgery to separate them because of the risk one or both of them would die. Anderson said in a 1981 interview that the possibility of surgical separation after they became grown was theoretic  the twins have said they Don t want to be separated. They dress alike and Cany the same items in identical purse. They both hate wearing dresses and depend on caffeine to perk the up for their new Early rising Lima. Before becoming students the twins slept in until noon then stayed Home All Day Wal Ching to and being worthless Yvonne said. They spent their Early years with a Cir Cus and were educated by tutors receiving High school equivalency diplomas in their lives changed when a Compton Community College catalogue arrived i their Mailbox earlier this year and they decided to enrol. They Are taking Basic math and English courses and a computer class. When they made their first appear Ance on Campus some students stared at them curiously and a few people in the admissions office blinked. Hut the twins who ride a bus to school say they were accepted from the first Day and Exchange Small talk with fellow students. They sit Al a round table in classes. Why did they decide at 38, to Start College All i know is i just decided the Lime had come said Yvonne. Me too Yvette agreed. 10 racing greyhounds die during airline flight Portland Ore. A ten racing greyhounds mysteriously died aboard a commercial airline flight from St. Louis to Portland and two others on the flight had to be killed. Thirteen dogs valued at up to si0,000 each Rode in a pressurized cargo hold on Twa flight 39, and 10 were dead and two were barely alive when the plane landed wednesday evening. The two were put to death soon after the plane s arrival. One dog sur Vived. Autopsies on some of the dogs were to be completed monday. The animals were being transported  a i in and Palm Beach Fla where they had spent the Winter racing at greyhound tracks to mul Nomah Kennel club in Fairview a track that opened its racing season thursday. It was a horrible sight seeing those Logi like that said Roy Grober of Aloha who trained five of the dogs. They re our livelihood but they re just like kids to us too. Veterinarian Warren Wegert who was called to the Airport recommended that autopsies be performed on some of the dogs. I Don t know what happened Mcgert said adding that the deaths did t seem to be caused by suffocation or heat exhaustion. Maybe something went wrong with the compression in the Cabin but i Don t know about  Jve ii Ahe Iii Twa station manager for Portland said he could not speculate on the cause of Cash until the autopsy report was released but he said the Grey hounds were alive in St. Louis. Several of the dogs were rated Grade a the highest class of greyhound and others were consistent winners in lower grades. Mack truck workers vote approval of 51/2-year pact Aller town a. A Union members in Pennsylvania and Maryland overwhelmingly approved a 5vi-Ycar contract with Mack trucks inc. On Sun Day trading wage and Benefit cuts for Job Security a United Auto worker spokesman said. Members of the Law in Allemon and Macungie voted 1,362 to 303 for the contract said Kim Blake president of Law local 677, in Hagar shown md., members voted 736-281, said Mack spokesman William Mccullough. Voting also was held in Somerset . The Vole capped months of controversy thai included a threat by Mack to move part of its Headquarters front Allentown. The members Are to the Point where they Don t like waking every Day and not knowing what Mack will pull off next Blake said. For the in years they won thave to worry about those kinds of  the company had no immediate com ment but planned a news conference with gov. Robert p. Casey and Union officials. The new agreement which replaces a contract scheduled to expire in october will Coyer 800 production workers in Macungie 1,200 employees at Mack Headquarters in Allentown 2,600 work ers in Hagerstown and about 100 in Somerset. Blake said the agreement reduced time off and Cut s1.01 fam the $12 to $14 hourly pay that enteric need Assembly line workers Lake Home. The 2,000 jobs remaining in Allen town and the jobs in the other two slates were guaranteed for the term of the con tract. Panasof time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 5, 1947 after an hour Long Cabinet meeting French Premier Paul Zairia Dier announced that the communist ministers who had voted against his coalition government in the National Assembly had been dropped from the Cabinet. 30 years ago today. May 5, 1957 former president Truman charged in a speech in Washine Iun that president Eisenhower is guilty of political bunk in his handling of the Federal budget. 20 years ago today. May a i967 the stale department expressed Hoot that tie Ovici Union would follow the example of the United states and Britain and Cut its troop strength along the Iron curtain. 10 years ago today. May 5, i977 former president Ninon Saij Ina television interview with David Frost that he never committed a crime or an impeach Abl offence during the water Gate scandal that he almost resigned in Early 1973, and that he Felt he had let the american people   
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